Talha Neman

Talha Neman (15 October 1965-29 June 2006) was a commander of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Biography
Talha Neman was born on 15 October 1965 in Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine to a Muslim Palestinian family. Neman joined the resistance against Israel's occupation of Palestine, and in 1989 he joined Hamas. Neman was known to be an amicable person with his men, although Israel saw him as a monster because of his supervision of several terrorist attacks. Neman appeared for the first time on television in 2005 in a video titled "Judgment Day", in which he warned all Palestinians that Allah would judge them soon, and that they had to take part in the war against the "Zionist" occupation. Neman's video was what led to his targeted killing in 2006 during Operation Falling Comet.

Neman was killed on 29 June 2006 in Gaza City during the intense fighting between the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades troops of Hamas and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). Neman was killed in action when an Israeli semtex grenade detonated ten seconds after it was supposed to, making Neman think that it was a fake. The grenade blast killed Neman and two other Hamas soldiers as they left cover from a restaurant, and his lieutenants issued a warning to Israel, saying that "the storm clouds will soon arrive over Quds (Jerusalem)".